darylsteak 2017-12-04 02:53
A challenging game with great artwork and smooth animations, it also gets harder and harder as time progresses. Sound effects are also nice
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Clumsy Paws
By Draggs Connor, Horodep, sovogirl, frozenspots and Konkykong
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 58 | 4.06 | 68 | |
| Fun | 210 | 3.70 | 68 | |
| Innovation | 390 | 3.37 | 66 | |
| Theme | 41 | 4.25 | 68 | |
| Graphics | 36 | 4.58 | 70 | |
| Audio | 127 | 3.84 | 60 | |
| Humor | 89 | 3.92 | 69 | |
| Mood | 109 | 3.93 | 67 |
A challenging game with great artwork and smooth animations, it also gets harder and harder as time progresses. Sound effects are also nice
**This has the potential to be a full on phone/tablet game.** Go with it.
* I really love the aesthetics and the sounds makes it really good. I love it! It makes the atmosphere fuzzy and the audio makes it quirky to play.
* As time progresses, it will become almost impossible for those who works with a mouse. As you know, the cats makes the items fall at the same time and it will be hard for people to react. Making this as a touch-centric game will make it easier but at least you can get the items falling from across the room.
* One broom is not enough for the mouse users. It doesn't even recover back until mom passes by! This is the bane for mouse users. I wish we could use it more.
This is simple yet stunningly beautiful. Good work.
Thanks for playing and your feedback!
Dawww! The art style is just. OOOOOOOOO. Good Work. and I agree with @fiakaiera 100%.
Fun and endearing! The graphics are amazing. I was confused about why sometimes I could or couldn't clean stuff off the floor. The laptop is hilarious and adds that "OH NO" moment a lot. Nice work!
Nice game. Broom using slightly non intuitive, since description tells you to click on the broom, but you have to click on the broken object instead.
The music theme is really catchy, I think I've heard something similar on NES.
The game teaches us that we need to buy more brooms if we get a bunch of cats.
Suggestion, it would be better if the broken stuff had a highlighted outline or something like that on them if we get available brooms. :v Or maybe it was just me finding it's hard to check the brooms when concentrating on those cats...
Love this game. Looks good, pays good. I made such a mess.. :))))
I just tested the game on a PС with sensor screen. That's really much more convenient. Phone/tablet version now looks like a nice option.
@chris-hall > I was confused about why sometimes I could or couldn’t clean stuff off the floor.
@s-ed > Broom using slightly non intuitive, since description tells you to click on the broom
@wiseclock > it’s hard to check the brooms when concentrating on those cats
Thank's for comments. That's important for us. In case of tablet port we'll rework onscreen and menu UI.
Such a very pretty looking game!
Great job! This game looks and sounds amazing, you must make a phone version of it! It took me some time to figure out where broom is - thought is was part of level, not gui icon, but i fugured it out. Also, mom's leg creeped me out for some reason, but thats a plus =)
Oh, it's so cute! Graphics style is amazing..
Really nice ! I do agree this game could make for a good smartphone port.
Not much else to say since everything is really well done, the art is lovely (that game over screen is terrifying O_O), the music and sound effects are nice and the gameplay is good (quite hard though).
Haha this is one of the cutest entry I've played so far, cute and annoying at the same time though. Liked the mews before the cat push down something, most would understand this if they have had cat pets.
Nice Art! But pretty hard to play with only one mouse. Seems like your cats ate all the other mouses...
Love the artisan art style! Fun gameplay
Thank you all for your feedback! We are really happy that you like it!
Maybe you could have added a Mac OS Build because there is none, unfortunately, I could not play it, as there was no mac build, but I really liked the Gifs from the posts you made
Oh no, not the belt!!
I tried a few times but I just could not stay ahead of those cats. Things got especially hard with the cat by the low table, which gives a very short time to catch the falling object.
I think I could have improved my performance a bit if the hitbox detection on the falling object was a little bit more generous. It seemed to be quite exact, and if I was zooming the mouse around the screen to catch several objects but I missed one by [what FELT like] a few pixels, then I'd have to reverse motion and try clicking again but by then I'd miss the rest of the falling stuff. Of course if I miss then I deserve to lose, but I maybe could have gotten into the ZONE better if the hit detection was like "you got pretty close, I'll give it to you". Also, omg that red sausage with its narrow vertical space!
I also felt like a "doomed but not dead" state when I had missed two objects early. I wasn't exactly certain I understood how the broom goes, but I think I get one broom per mom-check, yes? It might be better if the broom is ALWAYS there but to use it is a distraction... that way I can always recover but things spiral out of control if I fall behind? Not sure.
Anyway, those are some minor thoughts about what could be changed, but I really liked this. It's a simple system but the art is great and nicely animated, I like the hints of a dark tone w/ mom and dad especially. The music and sound are nicely done. Oh, and it was a very nice design idea to have the laptop, a large visible object with insta-lose... this created a special area for my attention and prevented it from all being the same. The low table was also that way - really had to keep me eye on those two spots!
Very nice work.
@game-coder28
Our musician understands your pain. We will add Mac-version later!
@pkenney
What a nice feedback! Thank you a lot.
We thought about "area around objects" but didn't have enough time to make it.
We will fix all little mistakes!
The game is super pretty. The game idea is okay, but it not super exiting. But the story is good. Overall is this a fine LD game.
This game is awesome! The art is beatifull! The music changes after every strike. I also like the game idea. And you made all of this in 78 hours :O. I am impressed! My highscore is 3:03. (PS: It would be nice to see how many objects I cought)
one of the best jam games i've seen! art, audio and concept are all incredible. lots of personality, too! (also i loved the game over screen...)
ohwow.JPG
good job guys!
The whole thing was great I enjoyed your use of the cats and it was just fun
This looks so good! I need a Mac OS version to try :(
Beautiful art, great sound, overall wonderful game! I enjoyed the creativity and work you guys put into this. I played it several times already. Great work!
Thank all of you for playing and your support! <3
The art is adorable! looking forward to trying this when I'm back home!
Thanks everyone! Glad you guys like our game!
Really love Sounds and Visuals. Music keeps you tense in a good sense. And I'll always prefer the game with cats ^_^
Nice art and fun to play !
This game made me smile. I loved the overall mood the music gave to the game. The style and feel of the graphics was amazing. For me it was almost impossible to keep up with the rate those mischievous cats were messing with the objects. Also I couldn't find how I was supposed to activate/grab the groom. Overall very solid entry. Keep up the good work!
@ionthas U just click on broken item on the floor to clean it.
Very funny game, would be a great addition to mobile!
I loved the variety of items on the shelves and the cats looked adorable even though they're very mischievous! :yum:
One fix I would recommend for the hitbox leniency issue other commentors were having, is that you could easily make it so on hovering over the falling object there would be a golden "shine" to it to give the player the indication that they are tapping in the right place!
Other than that, I had great fun with your game! Cheers! :smile:
Very nice ! And design is great !
As some people said, it will definitely be a nice mobile game! Very nice drawing, Sova, your art defines the overall game mood.
But I found out that sometimes I can't catch the falling item even if I clicked on it.
P.S. Сова, кстати, это интересное совпадение, но я тебя знаю. Я когда-то в старых 2014 был в Бате одним из редакторов, который выпускал Behind The Pixels.
@interpol Thanks a lot for your kind words! However, it's a work of a team! The art was created by @frozenspots and @konkykong so compliments should go to them.
П.С. Как же, помню-помню) Хороший был проект.
Very solid game! I really like all the mechanics. My suggestion would be to add a noise when mom comes in to inspect. Also some sort of indicator that tells you when you've successfully clicked on the broom. Overall this was a very awesome entry, nice job!!
Love cats! Had to play the game :3 Really sweet gameplay, but I found it very difficult to catch all the items after 1 minute. But I think, if you play it more often you will improve pretty soon. The art is amazing!
Overall the idea was actually very neat and would make a fun lil mobile game imho. I'd definitely like some kind of sound alert of mother about to come in. I also liked the cats meowing when they threw an object off. very awesome.
СУПЕР! Молодцы, отличная игра, забавная и спокойная. Хотелось бы какоенибудь звуковое предупреждение о том что мать скоро войдёт в комнату. В общем графика и звук что надо! игра без багов (в отличии от моей... =/ Молодцы)
I played this on stream last night. It was a lot of fun and sooo beautiful! I jokingly said to my stream that when dad gets home it'll be the belt, and I was right! You and I must've had the same old-school dad. ;-)
Game was a lot of fun and looks really great. Nice work!
@don-fouts @vkmicro There is a sigh that mom is coming! All cats... Freeze and pretend like they have nothing to do with all this mess!
@nivbeth Never give up, my friend!
@dr-argus We are so happy that you played our game on your stream and shared your emotions with other people. That's what games are for!
P.S. I hope your Dad doesn't use belt anymore.
Art is great!
omg! purrfect! really cute graphics, the sounds are just nice and the gameplay was really intense! congrats!
art, music and progression are great! it would be nice to have broom as cool-down item, not as a consumable. re-appear of things in replace for broken are a bit clumsy
Wow, that's one nice interpretation of the theme! I really like the idea and it's nice to play this adorable game.
What an adorable little game! Couldn't pass it as a fellow cat lover. I always have an urge to make a game about cats every LD but manage suppress it usually. Though my first LD game was about cats, Cat-O-Pult from LD36.
Execution is perfect as I see it. Great style and I loved attention to little details especially how cats start to behave when mom is about to come.
Nice idea, very good graphics, you worked on all the details, like the nice rotation of the objects when falling, etc.
The click bounding boxes are too small though, I miss many objects because of precision instead of reflexes. The music is a bit disappointing too: ver y repetitive, after some time I just cut the sound.
Can work well as a mobile / tablet game.
I love the art, and very cute in general. NEEDS MORE CATS. Also, music was a little repetitive but extra audio points for the game over music sting :kissing_cat:
Good job!
This was a really fantastic little game!! FANTASTIC graphics, addictive music and fun gameplay. The cats are so cute. Excellent submission!
Game play, graphics were great. fun and addictive. well made.
i like that graphic style and I was very sad seeing my laptop fall :'(
I love the graphic style and the cats were super cute, but I felt the gameplay to be rather meh. I like how the music built up after you get caught, but the loop that played each time was just too short and repetitive. If you are going to make a mobile port (which you totally should), I would say to make the hitboxes more generous. There were a lot of time where I clicked on an object but it didn't count.
Great art, nice gameplay. I enjoy that it's not instant faults, makes it more manageable and adds depth. Also priorities (the laptop) are a great addition.
Such fat cats! They really remind me of our [Pet Furball](http://cocoamoss.com/pet-furball/pet-furball.html), hahaha.
Probably one of my favorite games here. The graphics are cute, the game is fun and I liked how the music gets more ominous as you play. As others stated, maybe the object hitboxes could be more generous, especially considering the speed of how the objects fall.
oh my, what is that ending screen! :D I loved it! The art is definitely amazing, my favorite was mom's leg. I think this game is too hard for clicking with a mouse, it's very unforgiving. Maybe this could be resolved by making the game for mobile?
The broom confused me for a long time. I think you should have more of them to keep the game going for a little while longer, or just make the player lose some score for using it too often for example. The way it is now, once two or more things break, there is no real motivation for you to continue trying to catch all your stuff (except for the laptop), because you get a strike anyway AND all the broken things will be cleaned.
Otherwise I liked what you did with the laptop, it freshens up the game a lot and adds a lot of adrenaline to it. god, those cats are cute!